I for one have never said dudette, but the word actress is not a new term in the English language. Plus, why does a gender distinction within an English word automatically have to imply sexism if it's okay to you with Italian or French. Just because they were created a long time ago doesn't erase the fact that they specify a gender difference. Also, just because someone uses a gender specific word doesn't automatically mean they are doing so to bring down all women and portray them in a negative light. If I go out to eat with someone and I say, "she was a good waitress," I'm not secretly thinking, "she was a woman therefore she gets no tip." That's just not how it is for a vast majority of people. You are making a non-issue into something more than it needs to be.

Edit: I know sexism exists, just as racism does. Both always will, at least in our lifetimes. The point is, save your pent up anger for a real offender and not someone that uses gender specific terms that a huge portion of the population, male and female both use.

It is because dude is like saying you. There is no masculine or feminine. Dude is a neuter term much like guys, which is another word that people assume has gender when it is actually neuter. You would not say youess or youette it is just you.In your romantic languages gender is assigned to all words. Every word is ether masculine or feminine, it is simply part of the language. English does not do that, save for a very small group of words (he, she, his, hers, him, her and some prefixes). The neuter terms is one of the numerous things English borrowed from the Germanic languages. English is in fact evolved from German with some French which has picked up peaces from many other languages along the way. English is more related to the Germanic languages than the Romantic languages. Most everyday speech heavily influenced by the Germanic languages, were most scholarly "high brow" speech is more closely related to the Romantic languages. Research the evolution of English sometime it is quite interesting and has far less to do with the Romantic languages than most believe.

The simple answer I have for you is that I know English is primarily a Germanic language. My major point I will refine here. First of all, the first definition of "guys" is as follows, "1.Informal. a man or boy; fellow: He's a nice guy," whilst the second definition is, "2.Usually, guys. Informal. persons of either sex; people: Could one of you guys help me with this?" The primary meaning of "guys is a man or boy, but that's just for your benefit, now onto the point.

If the implication of a gender difference is such a big deal, then why is it OK for older languages to continue to perpetuate a gender difference by their very design? As I stated, most people, male or female of all levels of education will say terms that specify a gender difference. Wouldn't it be more useful to direct anger on the topic of sexism against actual sexist people rather than against men and women using terms that have no sexist meaning, and rather only imply a gender difference for the sake of clarification? When I, or anyone else says something like, "she was a good waitress," we're not secretly thinking, "she was a woman therefore she gets no tip." If we were thinking that it would probably come out as an actually sexist statement more akin to, "that bitch is not getting a tip." I could understand anger at that sort of language.

Being the first definition listed doesn't make it the "primary" in the sense of being more important (it does make it the primary in terms of being the first listed but that's not what is being implied here). The "primary" definition is the most understood one. You can decide what that is for yourself.

That being said, this entire comment chain is somewhat retarded. I happen to agree with the notion of just using "dude" or "guy" in a gender neutral fashion but I don't really care if you don't, so long as you understand my usage of the word (otherwise it just gets confusing). Neither is inherently sexist.

This was pretty much the point. If there is no sexist connotation behind these words, it's just the common language so why is it that big of a deal. Also, if a primary definition is the most understood one doesn't that make it the most important?

That's what I said. Being the first one listed in the particular dictionary you looked at doesn't make it the most important or understood so is irrelevant. If you think the sex-based definition is more understood then ok. That might be cultural though.

Well in my language dude is "jäbä","äijä" and "jätkä" and they mean only a male, so I don't know if dude can mean both genders in english laungage. But I know that many girls don't like to be called a dude.

in today's society calling a girl dude is almost as acceptable as going downtown and hanging with black people as a white and calling them nigga..its ok in their society to call each other that as such a girl calling a girl a dude would be acceptable only among themselves... when a guy calls a girl dude it is an insult to many of them!

The true sexists are those that become offended or create sexism out of common words that are spoken in everyday language..just because it is politically correct doesn't make it right. its all just to cause and give reason to people who have nothing better to do but whine and complain. Only people that truly care and make a fuss out of so-called racist and sexist remarks are the ones that need to be put into check.. This is the modern age where people live together!! People in the media create problems where none exist to keep people up in arms and get their stories!..

The episodic releases of these games is like... starving to death, and being offered the most delicious slice of cake, and you are just going to have to stare at the rest of the cake, not able to eat it....
Don't get me wrong, the slice of cake was amazing, but we are still hungry dammit!

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Is episode 3 gunna be released at end of March or April or ? Any specific Month?...

Because I've noticed you guys changed pictrue for Episode 3. Before there was that girly cop spying on Bigby, Well now there's Bigby chasing what looks like Crane's vehicle but god knows whos driving it. I already knew that Episode 2 will have some epic twist about Crane as soon as I checked the pictrue , and then when Crane picked you up at the police station I just knew those were the exact same cars.

Anyway this is a really surprising ending so you guys should hurry up because this one... is a real cliffhanger =P

Summer ends on the 21st of September astronomically (which is the system the United States follows, which is where Telltale is located). If everything goes according to schedule (and, it should, since that gives a little more than 2 months each for each remaining episode), the season will conclude by that date, at most.

My guess is that they will make us wait till at least June....With sporadic information between now with only a few days notice of the release date of episode 2. My guess June 9th-June 11th is my guess...